Chapter 9: Lightning Saber-Toothed Tiger

A month had passed since that last battle, and Zhou Yi's Spiritual Power level had finally reached level 20; it was time to obtain a Soul Ring.

He intended to hunt a thunder-attribute Soul Beast, and based on the Grandmaster's knowledge of Soul Beasts, he had already confirmed a few choices.

After obtaining his Second Soul Ring, he also planned to travel across the Continent; a tiny Nuoding City really made him feel quite bored.

……

One day later.

After saying goodbye to Tang San, Xiao Wu, and the Grandmaster, he took Jin Ling toward the Star Dou Great Forest. As for why it wasn't the Hunting Soul Forest, one could only say the Hunting Soul Forest was too weak; it didn't have any slightly formidable Soul Beasts. As for Jin Ling and the Green Wind Falcon, he estimated they might have even flown over from somewhere else.

Now he could Cloud Soar and Mist Drive; he could go anywhere on the entire Continent, provided it wasn't a closed-off place.

……

After circling in the air above the outer perimeter of the Star Dou Great Forest for half a day, he finally discovered a target: a Lightning Saber-Toothed Tiger of about 6,000 years.

This type of Soul Beast not only mastered thunder, with electricity generated under its claws, but it could also use lightning to stimulate itself to increase its defense, speed, and attack; it could be called a very formidable Soul Beast. Besides this, it also carried an additional partial light attribute.

As for why he chose 6,000 years? One could only say that ever since he discovered last time that his physical fitness was stronger than expected, he had already planned for his Third Soul Ring to be ten-thousand-year level. Since that was the case, the age of his Second Soul Ring could not be low; it had to be at least 5,000 years or more.

Moreover, absorbing a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring would cause soul tremors. To overcome this, he often fought with Jin Ling until his Spiritual Power was exhausted to temper his willpower.

And now, he intended to make the Soul Beast before him full of resentment toward him, so that after absorbing the Soul Ring, it would stimulate and enhance his own mental power.

It is said that the greater the resentment of a Soul Beast before it dies, the greater the chance of producing a soul bone. If a soul bone happened to pop out, wouldn't that be wonderful? Even if he didn't use it himself, he could give it to Jin Ling, or at the very least, selling it or exchanging it with others would also be good.

"Good! It's decided, it's you! Lightning Saber-Toothed Tiger!"

Saying this, he and Jin Ling dove down from the sky at high speed, the SpiralSphere condensing in his hand, the target being the military base dangling behind its butt (lol).

"Awoooooo！！！！！！!"

This wave, this wave is a fighter jet conducting a precision bombing on a military vital point.

With this hit, that thing was thoroughly blasted, not even the root remained.

The Lightning Saber-Toothed Tiger rolled on the ground in pain. It was miserable enough; it had been napping on the ground when suddenly something unknown dove down from the sky and performed a castration surgery on it in an instant.

As the saying goes, "To practice this art, one must first castrate oneself." After the Tiger Brother became Tiger Sister, she became even more fierce and formidable. Now she had absolutely no weaknesses at all.

After she stood up, she looked at her attending physician with a fierce glint in her eyes, opening her blood-basin mouth, wishing she could swallow him alive.

In an instant, her whole body was filled with thunder as she pounced toward Zhou Yi at high speed. Zhou Yi was not afraid, and he hammered his fist, wrapped in soul power and Entanglement of Wind and Cloud, directly at the tiger claw.

Boom—!

Zhou Yi only held on for a moment before being swatted away by the incredibly furious, full-state Saber-Toothed Tiger.

"Holy crap! So fierce? I just helped you eliminate a weakness, I even heard before that this would make you live longer." Even after being swatted away, his mouth didn't stay idle.

"You ungrateful villain!" At this moment, he actually dared to continue provoking it.

Upon hearing this, the Lightning Saber-Toothed Tiger's eyes turned completely blood-red. It was truly enraged; now it only wanted to do one thing, and that was to bite off the head of the person before it and fiercely suck dry his brains.

Following Zhou Yi's provocation, the Saber-Toothed Tiger turned into a bolt of Lightning, constantly weaving through the forest, while Zhou Yi could only struggle to hold on, and before long, his whole body was covered in wounds.

"Jin Ling! Help me, this one is a tough nut to crack."

Upon hearing this, Jin Ling found an opportunity, clawed out one of the Saber-Toothed Tiger's eyes, and then took advantage of its pain to carry Zhou Yi into the sky.

"Phew... that was close. This guy's speed is too fast; there was no chance to take off at all. Jin Ling, let's kite it."

The Saber-Toothed Tiger on the ground, despite being blinded in one eye, still stared fixedly at Zhou Yi with its remaining single eye, using the trees to jump and try to get close to him.

However, Zhou Yi wouldn't come down now; he kept throwing Wind Blades downward while calling out to Jin Ling:

"Jin Ling, use Meteor Shower!"

That's right, he named Jin Ling's golden feather skill Meteor Shower.

Just like that, he and Jin Ling kept attacking the Saber-Toothed Tiger from the air, while the Saber-Toothed Tiger couldn't reach them at all.

Some might ask, why not use the Spiral Shuriken?

For a Soul Beast as fast as Lightning like the Lightning Saber-Toothed Tiger, this kind of skill simply couldn't hit. Only high-density attacks could hit it.

But even if it could hit, the damage wouldn't be fatal.

It took a full day for Zhou Yi and the others to grind the Saber-Toothed Tiger to death.

During this period, the Saber-Toothed Tiger even feigned death once to try to lure them down, but Zhou Yi had Jin Ling shoot at its other eye, and it couldn't keep up the act.

Although the process of this battle was arduous, it wasn't all in vain.

Zhou Yi, who had come down from the Cloud, looked at the corpse that died with eyes wide open in anger and said:

"Tiger Sister, let's meet again in the mental world later..."

After saying this, he took the purple Soul Ring that emerged into his body to absorb it.

As the Soul Ring was absorbed, the figure of Tiger Sister also began to appear in the mental world, and a new round of battle began again.

……

Half an hour later, Zhou Yi finally completely absorbed the Soul Ring. Although the process was somewhat painful, the result was good.

Moreover, one could tell how deep the Saber-Toothed Tiger's resentment toward him was from the fact that his mental power had increased by a large margin.

His soul power also increased to level 25, and at the same time, he obtained his Second Soul Skill: Lightning and Thunder.

It is an amplification-type skill. Its effect is to increase one's own attack, speed, defense, and strength by 100% under the stimulation of lightning. At the same time, attacks carry the effect of lightning. The skill duration is limited by soul power.

If used on others, it is changed to 50%, and it still carries the effect of lightning. The number of people is unlimited, but it is limited by soul power.

That is to say, as long as you have enough soul power, you can amplify yourself and a large number of others at the same time until your soul power is exhausted.

However, what Zhou Yi lacks the least is soul power. Relying on the Spiritual Power within his body, he can completely achieve having himself constantly amplified by the soul skill during battle. As for amplifying others at the same time, his Spiritual Power is still not quite enough for that right now.

Of course, what Zhou Yi values most is obtaining the ability of Thunder Element Control. With this kind of power, he can control the movement of positive and negative charges in the clouds in the future, thereby triggering thunderstorms, and thus his upper limit of attack power is greatly increased.

……

After roughly studying his Second Soul Skill, Zhou Yi used his traditional skill again: looting the corpse.

"Why is there no soul bone even after doing this? Could it be that I'm really not the protagonist?..." At this moment, Zhou Yi had flipped the Saber-Toothed Tiger's corpse over completely, but he just couldn't find a soul bone.

Good heavens, this guy died with eyes wide open in anger, and yet it still didn't drop a soul bone.